I agree with Mimi - this is the best message board thread of all time. I haven’t read thru it all, but the description in the first post is beyond brilliant.

Good drunken debate from a few nights ago.

The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?

The specifics:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is “out.”
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of “counter-tactics” training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.

I set my magic number at 30, but upon reflection, I think I could take on a few more. How many could you take on?

Jef picked out my favorite response:

I think the real question is how many five year olds it would take to beat a tiger.

That depends?

Am I throwing the 5 yr olds at the tiger? Or am I beating the tiger with them by swinging them from their legs like a baseball bat?

Can I freeze the 5 yr olds first to make them sting more?